All
information in this article is for educational purposes only.It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.

INTRODUCTION

Nutritional
balancing is one of the safest and surest way to lose excessive weight.It is very effective, automatic if one follows
the program properly, and most important, very safe – unlike almost all
other weight loss methods.

Hundreds of
people have permanently lost large amounts of weight healthfully with a
nutritional balancing program.Some lose up to 150 pounds or more.

In fact, a more
common complaint I hear is that one gets too thin if one follows a nutritional
balancing program carefully.Everyone becomes thin on this program, which some people do not like.Let us discuss these attributes in more
detail.

SAFETY

This should be
everyone’s primary concern when following a diet, taking a drug, herb or other
supplement, going for weight loss surgery, or any other means of losing weight.

By safe, I mean
that with nutritional balancing, one’s overall health improves as weight is
lost.In fact, the weight loss is
a “side effect” of improved health due to a nutritional balancing program.

In addition,
there are NO:

1. Possibly
toxic drugs or herbs,

2. Toxic and
possibly lethal surgery

3. Dangerous
vigorous exercise

4. Extreme or
deficient diets.

Starvation.In contrast, most weight loss diets and programs do not supply the body
with the nutrients it needs and/or do not balance body chemistry.Therefore, one may lose weight, but one
becomes more ill and nutritionally deficient at the same time.

This is the
case with practically ALL weight loss programs, especially those that restrict
food intake or utilize strict diets, cleansing diets, vegetarian or vegan
diets, the HCG weight loss program, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, stomach
stapling, and most others.This is
an important factor to consider if one is thinking of any weight loss program.

Toxicity.Some weight loss programs definitely cause toxicity because they involve
somewhat toxic herbs, stimulant drugs such as dexadrine to suppress the
appetite, or surgery that fills one with anesthesia and other drugs needed
during or after surgery.

PERMANENCE

Weight loss with nutritional balancing is permanent
because the program reverses the basic causes of weight gain.In other words, it is not a “temporary
fix”, as are most all other weight loss programs.

For example, damaging foods are eliminated.Drugs such as antibiotics that were
damaging metabolism are removed from the body, for example, so they no longer
upset metabolism.Thyroid activity
is restored.This is explained
later in this article.

SIMPLE

It is simple because:

A. A nutritional balancing program involves no special
cleansing diets, no counting calories or measuring food portions, and no
starvation – you can eat until you are full.

B. Also, it does not require vigorous exercise.This saves time and saves a lot of
effort, as well.

In fact, I discourage any vigorous
exercise at all.Most bodies today
are too ill for that and it can be dangerous.Also, for young women, going to health clubs and jogging are
definitely unsafe activities.

C.Automatic.It happens automatically in all cases,
and usually quickly.The key is to
follow the diet and take the supplements.Using the detoxification procedures makes it even better, but is not as
important.

HOW WEIGHT LOSS OCCURS ON A
NUTRITIONAL BALANCING PROGRAM

Most weight loss programs leave
a person more depleted nutritionally.This applies to any program that restricts caloric intake, for example,
and to all of them that do not insist on a better diet with more cooked
vegetables and supplements, including a powerful digestive aid.These are all needed to renourish the
body.A COMPLETE nutritional
balancing program usually takes care of weight problems easily because it:

1. Slowly restores
thyroid activity.That is, it helps remove chlorides,
fluorides, bromides, copper and mercury from the thyroid gland, and puts back
iodine, manganese, selenium and other minerals needed for the thyroid.As this is done, the thyroid starts
functioning normally, without a need for thyroid hormone replacement.The latter always slows progress on a
nutritional balancing program unless the thyroid gland has been surgically removed
or destroyed by radiation or some other method.

2. Reducing
insulin production.This is done by restricting all sugars,
fruits, fruit juices and other simple carbohydrates and even complex
carbohydrates such as wheat and spelt.

3. Restore zinc to
the body.Zinc is needed as an anti-inflammatory
element, for insulin regulation, for the adrenals and thyroid gland, for
digestion, and for many other purposes.

4. Reducing high
cortisol levels, if needed.This also helps with some weight
loss.Basically, this occurs due
to stress reduction.

5. Less water
retention.This occurs due to better zinc levels,
lower cortisol and cortisone levels, lower insulin, and a more balanced
oxidation rate.

6. Less
inflammation.This is related to paragraphs 1 –
5 above.It involves a better
diet, a better lifestyle, zinc replenishment and making sure one has enough of
other anti-inflammatory nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D,
flavinoids, calcium, magnesium and others.It also has to do with getting rid of the ‘amigos’, which
are oxidants and highly inflammatory forms of minerals.

7. Making the body
much more yang.Yang is a Chinese word that
means warmer and more contracted.Indeed, many people’s bodies are too expanded, literally.As one becomes more yang, there is a
general contraction of the body that results in weight loss, when needed.

8. Facing and
working through traumas and other issues.This happens
automatically on a nutritional balancing program as one’s deep adaptive energy
level rises.As these issues are
resolved, abnormal food cravings often vanish, eating sensibly becomes easier,
and often one naturally eats less and handles food better.

HINTS FOR WEIGHT
LOSS ON A NUTRITIONAL BALANCING PROGRAM

1. The diet is essential.Do not try to avoid the diet. The stricter you follow the
diet, the better will be the outcome.For example,
one needs to avoid ALL fruit and fruit juices, not just most of them.

2. Cravings and
odd feelings will occur at times. This is normal and nothing to be concerned about.Just do your best, using gimmicks, if
needed, to keep you from overeating or eating the wrong foods.

3. The time factor
in weight loss.This varies depending on genetics,
glandular balance and other factors.I recommend setting aside any “instant cures” mentality and deciding
that one will do what it takes for a few years, if needed, to achieve one’s
healthful weight loss.

This means several years of
attention to the correct diet, the proper supplements, a healthful lifestyle and
emotional control.

4. Extra
detoxification procedures are also often required including near infrared lamp
sauna therapy, coffee enemas.Other modalities such as colonic irrigation, chiropractic and body work
may help, at times, as well.

If you are willing to work into
such a program, most overweight problems will be solved easily, even if the
problem has been there for years.You will not require surgery, harmful drugs, questionable herbs, or
deficient or extreme diets of any kinds.You also will not need fasting, which is unsafe for most people except
for short 1 or 2-day fasts.

The rest of
this article includes more details on some causes for weight gain, and other
topics related to weight.

2. Biochemical imbalances associated with weight gain.The best known of these is a low
thyroid condition.However, other
glandular imbalances or metabolic problems can contribute to weight gain.

3. Stopping stimulants that were driving the metabolism and
keeping weight in check.Some people
gain weight when they stop vigorous exercise, or when they stop living on
coffee or other stimulants.

4. Physical and emotional traumas that often cause weight
gain.This is a very important and often
hidden cause of weight gain.The
most common type of trauma that can cause weight gain is a molestation or rape,
especially in women.Others
include getting beaten up, an accident of some kind, or other types of traumas.

These
traumas can be slowly brought up and resolved using a nutritional balancing
program.This is not the case with
most other weight loss diets and methods.

5. Other.One must stop drinking diet sodas and using artificial sweeteners, avoid
all chemicals in foods and elsewhere, and avoid most antibiotics.

DIFFERENT BODY LOOKS DEPEND UPON THE CAUSE OF WEIGHT GAIN

For example,
there is a sort of balloon-like look
to some people.Usually they
consume fruit, sweets and/or alcohol and these cause a yin condition, yeast
overgrowth and general swelling of the face and body.

Some people
have a more doughy look.They often consume too many complex
carbohydrates such as bread, potatoes or other grains or starches.A doughy look is also a characteristic
of very low thyroid activity.Reasons for this common condition are explained below.

Others have a
kind of sloppy overweight
condition.They often live on junk
food, fast food and generally poor quality foods.

The apple shape.As explained below, fast
oxidizers tend to carry more weight higher up on the body and develop a
larger belly and perhaps larger breasts, with thinner arms and legs.

The pear shape.Slow oxidizers
generally have more of a pear-shaped body.Trauma is also more associated with this body shape.

TRAUMA AND WEIGHT GAIN

Trauma, in
particular, causes many people, especially women but also some men, to gain a
lot of weight.Often, such
individuals weigh over 300 pounds.The trauma combines with poor eating habits to create the
situation.I will briefly describe
how this works and how to change it.

Trauma upsets the body’s normal regulatory mechanisms at
many levels.For example, if a woman is raped, or if
a man is beaten or abused in some way, even emotionally, many react by starting
to eat more.One may eat to:

a) Literally
protect the body from harm by increasing its mass and volume.This makes it much harder for an
attacker to succeed.

b) Make the
body less attractive to a rapist.

c) Make the
body less attractive to the opposite sex, if this is the cause of the trauma.

d) Hide one’s
anger and rage.This is very
common.The extra weight serves as
a type of insulation, in fact.

e) Cover up
one’s shame and disgust with the body or perhaps to express one’s disgust with
what has occurred.

f) Food may
become synonymous with love, and the food habit may become a substitute for the
love that was taken away or missing.

g) Reflect a
lack of caring anymore about the body after the trauma.

h) Trauma
depletes minerals like zinc, and one loses a normal appetite as a result, and
eats from nervousness or fear or some other emotion than from real hunger.

i) A trauma can
cause one become isolated, and one eats from boredom, perhaps.

j) Other
reasons related to trauma are also possible.

This cause of
overweight is very common.Most
people do not know what to do about it, because just following a diet, while
helpful, is difficult for such individuals, so they make little progress.

In contrast,
what occurs when one goes on a nutritional balancing program is that slowly the
body and mind work through the trauma.This may sound far-fetched, but I assure you it occurs on a regular
basis.I believe it happens
because a nutritional balancing program enhances mental functioning greatly,
makes the body more yang, removes two dozen toxic metals and hundreds of toxic
chemicals from the body and for other reasons as well.Gradually, memories surface and the
trauma is processed and leaves.

One need not
know what the trauma was, exactly, and one need not analyze one’s past for
years or even months.Insights
just arise and pass away as the body heals at deep levels.

As this occurs,
one will find that the reasons for overeating, or eating the wrong foods, or
craving certain foods, slowly go away.This is the basic process.To read more about this phenomenon, read Trauma
Release, Rape and Healing
Rape on this website.

WEIGHT GAIN DUE TO METABOLIC IMBALANCES

Most people are
aware of these.They include
thyroid and adrenal imbalance, water retention, poor circulation and a few
others.I will divide them into
those found primarily in slow or in fast oxidizers.This will greatly simplify them.

SLOW OXIDATION AND
WEIGHT

Slow
oxidation is an exhaustion stage of stress.This means the body is tired, and this alone can cause
overeating to “keep up one’s strength or energy”.However, it means much more than this.

The slow oxidizer
body type – the pear shape.Slow oxidizers
tend to gain more weight lower on the body, such as the hips and the legs.It has to do with a low thyroid gland,
as explained below.This shape is
called the pear shape.However, it
is just a figure of speech because weight gain can occur in other areas as
well.

Most slow oxidizers gain weight
in many areas because they were not always slow oxidizers.Most were fast oxidizers at one time,
so they have some of the qualities of fast oxidizers as well.

Low thyroid and
adrenal activity. In
slow oxidation, the adrenal and
thyroid glands are depleted nutritionally.Also, they become filled with toxins instead of nutrients as
the nutrient minerals become replaced with less preferred or toxic metals.This is a fascinating phenomenon that
is explained more in the article entitled The
Theory of Nutritional Balancing Science.

This replacement process leads
to reduced glandular activity in almost all cases.This is well known to cause weight gain, in particular in
the lower body areas.

Other ways it causes weight gain are if
food is metabolized improperly and is converted to fat.This occurs most often in slow
oxidizers who overeat on carbohydrate foods, though it occurs often in fast
oxidizers as well.

Impaired
circulation is also common in slow oxidizers and is one of the reasons these
individuals have some difficulty losing extra weight quickly and safely.

Impaired
digestion and absorption of one’s food is the rule, rather than the
exception, in slow oxidizers.They
often have chronic infections such as candida albicans in the intestines.This further impairs the metabolism of
food and can also lead to excess weight gain or loss.

The body may attempt to dilute
toxins generated in the intestines, which it cannot get rid of adequately.Also, food sensitivities occasionally
cause water retention and weight gain.Wheat is a common culprit among food sensitivities.It is one reason I take everyone off
all wheat products.This is not
always easy at first, but almost always helps with weight loss, if it is
needed.

Leaky gut syndrome
in many slow
oxidizers can also cause weight gain by causing inflammation in the body. This
can cause the body to hold more water or other substances that it otherwise
should.

Many, if not all slow oxidizers,
are somewhat malnourished.This
itself can lead to weight loss, but also to weight gain if one compensates by
overeating in an attempt to obtain more nutrients.This is a very common situation, especially in those who
live on refined foods.The body
calls for more nutrients, so one keeps eating the ‘empty calories’ in a vain
attempt to obtain one’s vitamins and minerals.

Emotions.Many slow oxidizers are emotionally shut down.We see this reflected on hair mineral
tests when the calcium level is very high.This is called a calcium shell.

At times, these individuals
demonstrate a body type that is withdrawn and thin, a representation of their
emotional withdrawal.Others,
however, withdraw behind layers of excess weight and often poor eating habits.

Copper Toxicity.Most all slow oxidizers are copper toxic and zinc-deficient.One effect of this situation is a
decrease in real appetite and an increase in various unusual cravings.This can result in anorexia, but it can
also and often does result in odd cravings and a lack of a consistent appetite
control.

Hypoglycemia and
diabetes.Many slow oxidizers also have a
tendency for chronic low blood due to weak adrenal glands.This can attract one to sweets and
sugary foods, which may easily contribute to excess weight gain.

Now let us discuss a different
metabolic type, the fast oxidizer.One would think, by the name, that these individuals would all be
skinny.However, this is rarely
the case.Here is why.

FAST OXIDATION
AND WEIGHT GAIN

Fast oxidizers are in a more
sympathetic state or fight-or-flight mode of body chemistry.This condition is characterized by
excessive adrenal and thyroid glandular activity.

In most instances, however, it
is a temporary state of irritation caused by the presence of toxic metals or
other toxic substances that stimulate the glandular system and the autonomic
nervous system.

In fact, these people are often
what are called slow oxidizers under some stress.If they follow a nutritional balancing program, in a few
months to a year or more, they begin to slow down.

However, while fast oxidizers,
here are some of the reasons they can gain excessive weight very easily,
especially if they overeat on carbohydrates such as starches and sugary foods.

The fast oxidizer
body shape – the apple shape.The classic
fast oxidizer shape is the apple shape.There is a tendency to gain weight in the stomach and chest areas.Some also have very thin legs and arms,
along with a large trunk.

This is sometimes called a
“Cushing’s disease” body shape, since it is associated with this illness.It is due to overactive adrenal glands,
which is the situation with true fast oxidizers.High insulin levels may also contribute, in some cases.

However, most fast oxidizers
today are, in fact, mixed and many are just slow oxidizers under stress.Therefore, they have a mixed weight
gain picture, just as many slow oxidizers do.

Metabolic Syndrome
or Syndrome X.These people usually gain weight around
the waist and in the upper body such as the chest.This is called the ‘apple-shaped’ pattern of weight gain,
often seen in men with a large belly and thin legs.

This is a direct effect of
excessive carbohydrates in the diet and/or excessive cortisone and cortisol
secretion by the adrenal glands.It is a mild form of Cushing’s syndrome, the disease of overactive
adrenal glands.

Cortisone and cortisol secretion
in excess cause fat deposition, especially in the abdomen and shoulders, where
the fat pad is called a ‘buffalo hump’.Fast oxidizers are prone to this condition.

Dietary
carbohydrates cause weight gain in fast oxidation.This body type may lose considerable weight quickly just by
switching to a diet low in all carbohydrates.Reducing refined grains and white sugars is particularly helpful.

Water retention.This is common in fast oxidizers for a number of reasons:

1. Cortisol causes water
retention.These individuals, more
than slow oxidizers, often have poor muscle definition and a pasty,
water-logged consistency to their skin and tissues with significant water
retention.

2. Cortisone also damages the
kidneys, which can lead to water retention.In fact, this occurs in slow oxidizers as well for different
reasons, namely the accumulation of toxic metals.

3. A high tissue sodium level
tends to cause water retention as a compensatory mechanism.

4. Overeating on carbohydrates
aggravates the tendency because carbohydrate foods break down into water, in
part.This would not be a problem
if the person could handle the excess water, but often they cannot.

A need for zinc,
copper and other trace minerals.Fast oxidizers
require more zinc in their diets to offset their high sodium levels.Carbohydrates deplete their zinc, which
causes their sodium level to rise further.

They do much better on more
meats, which contain zinc.This,
in turn, helps lower their high sodium level.

High insulin in
fast oxidation.
The insulin level tends to be higher in fast oxidizers, and high insulin can
cause fat deposition.

Fast oxidizers need to reduce
their insulin secretion.An
excellent way to do this is to limit carbohydrate intake.This includes stopping all fruit and
sweet juices, and reducing grains.I suggest everyone eliminate wheat and spelt completely from the diet.

Limiting carbohydrates also
means reducing the amount of sweet and very starchy vegetables such as sweet
potatoes and yams.

A LOW
SODIUM/POTASSIUM RATIO AND FAST OXIDATION.

This is a very common occurrence
in those who are overweight in fast oxidation.The hair tissue sodium/potassium ratio must be less than 2:1
for this pattern to be present.The pattern is described in much more detail in a separate article by clicking here.

It is a sign that the fast
oxidation rate is temporary and will change to slow oxidation soon.It also indicates several imbalances
associated with weight gain:

1. Excessive stress, which
causes higher cortisone, high cortisol and higher insulin levels, all of which
contribute to weight gain.

2. Kidney stress, which causes
water retention in many people.

3. Emotional stress such as
frustration, resentment and hostility.This also contributes to weight gain, indirectly, as discussed later in
this article.

4. Emotional insecurity.This can also cause water retention and
weight gain in some people who eat to feel safe or loved.

MIXED PATTERNS

Many people’s metabolic pattern
is a mixture of fast and slow oxidation due to the presence of toxic metals,
nutrient deficiencies and other factors including mental/emotional ones.A first hair mineral analysis on these
individuals may indicate fast or slow oxidation, and the pattern changes on
later tests.

There is no way to predict the
shifts in the oxidation rate, and one can only follow the dietary and
supplementary nutrient programs faithfully through the changes until one is
clear of toxic metals and chemicals.As this occurs, the mixed pattern will resolve, often
within a few months, to either slow or fast oxidation.

OTHER WEIGHT LOSS
PROGRAMS

HCG THERAPY FOR
WEIGHT LOSS

This is a popular way of losing weight today.It consists of taking shots of human
chorionic gonadotropin, or a homeopathic formula
of it, plus a low calorie diet.It
is said one loses ½ to 1 pound per day on this regimen.

While it is okay for a few
months, perhaps, I cannot recommend this method.HCG is a catabolic death hormone produced by the trophoblast
during pregnancy and produced by most cancers.It seems to cause the body to “open its doors” somehow,
either affecting cell membrane transport, circulation or some other mechanism so
that weight loss proceeds faster.

While it can cause temporary
weight loss, it is not safe from my perspective.Nutritional balancing causes a much safer type of weight
loss without calorie restriction.Read Problems With HCG For Weight Loss on
this site.

INTERMITTENT
FASTING OR SKIPPING BREAKFAST FOR WEIGHT LOSS

This is recommended by Dr.
Whitaker and Dr. Mercola.In my
view, it is:

1. Totally unnecessary.

2. Very harmful.It is difficult enough to obtain the
nutrients we all need if you eat three meals a day.It is even more difficult if you skip meals.

THE ATKINS DIETING
APPROACH

Dr. Robert Atkins, MD sold over
10 million books about weight loss.He advocated a higher fat and very low carbohydrate diet.It was roundly criticized by medical
authorities.However, many have
now changed their mind and realize that Dr. Atkins was on to something.

This diet is best for fast
oxidizers, in our experience.However, one must add a lot of cooked vegetables and some supplements,
or it is not safe.For more,
please read The Atkins Diet on this site.Also, I find that if a person takes the
right supplements and eats a lot of cooked vegetables, then the very strict
Atkins system is not needed for weight loss.

VIGOROUS EXERCISE
FOR WEIGHT LOSS

Many
weight loss programs suggest exercising vigorously to “burn calories” and
perhaps for other reasons such as to oxygenate the body.With nutritional balancing, this is not
necessary or helpful.It wears out
the body and can be dangerous if the body is in bad physical shape, as is often
the case.

RAW FOOD FOR
WEIGHT LOSS

This sometimes works to a degree
because one must stop eating breads, pastries, cookies, cakes, and other rich
foods.

One problem with all raw food
regimens is that our bodies do not absorb minerals nearly as well from raw
foods as from cooked ones.The
reason is we lack the ability to break down tough vegetable fibers and the hard
fiber of grains.

A second critical problem is
that raw food makes the body very yin.This may feel good and cause some weight gain, at first.However, it slowly throws the body out
of balance and worsens health in all cases, no matter what symptomatic benefits
it provides.

Raw food also is hard on the
digestive tract, and this also causes longer-term nutritional deficiencies,
inflammation and other problems.

Raw food regimens with a lot of
fruit usually do not work at all for weight loss.This causes a lot of frustration for many people.The reason, besides those given above,
is that fruit contains a lot of sugar that upsets body chemistry and can
actually put on weight.

VEGETARIAN DIETS
FOR WEIGHT LOSS

These may work for a short time,
but all of them lead to nutritional deficiencies and eventually nutritional
depletion.This is because
vegetarian diets are missing many vital nutrients.

One may lose some bloat and
water because one may eliminate foods and food combinations that are harming
the body.However, vegetarian
diets are not the answer for weight loss.

Books that say you can get
anything from a vegetarian diet that you can get from a mixed vegetable/animal
flesh diet are simply wrong, in my experience.

Vegetarian diets can even cause
weight gain, depending on what one eats.Some people fill up on bread, rice, cake, candy, cookies, beans and
sweet potatoes, and then wonder why they are gaining weight.For more on this topic, please read Vegetarianism on this website.

WHY SOME GAIN TOO MUCH WEIGHT

This can be
divided into four categories.These are too much food, the wrong food, metabolic imbalances and other
reasons, particularly hidden traumas.Let us consider each of these in some detail.

1. Too much food.This is the first and simplest problem to overcome.It is tempting today to overeat for
several reasons.In some people,
it is simply a bad habit to eat when tired, eat when anxious or even to eat
just to do something.

This is a habit
that can be overcome by noting when you eat, keeping the right foods in the
house, avoiding friends and locations where people eat too much such as Mexican
bars, some restaurants and others.

Other hints are
to go to bed early.Also, if you
can, make friends of people who eat well and wholesomely.

These hints are
not always easy to follow, but they can be done by anyone and will yield
excellent results if this is the real cause of overweight.Too often, however, it is not enough,
as many know.

2. The wrong kind of foods or diets.This is related to the first cause of
overweight, in that when one overeats, often it is on the wrong types of foods.

The most common
wrong food is carbohydrates.If
one just ate meat, or even just watery fruit, it would be harder to gain weight.
However, it is easy with donuts, chips, fries, soda pop with sugar, milkshakes,
burgers with thick buns and Mexican types of foods.

One rarely sees
overweight people at Chinese or Thai restaurants, however, because they eat
mostly vegetables and some non-fatty meats, for the most part.

So the kinds of
foods one eats and even overeats is important for weight loss.

This problem is
handled best by keeping only vegetables, fruits and starchy foods that are
healthful at the house and office.Avoid all others in your cupboard entirely.

Stay away from
the cookies, cakes, ice creams, soda, pastries, donuts, pizza and many others
that are often called “empty calories”.These should be avoided like the plague.

Tell your
friends you will only eat with them at Thai, Chinese and very few other
restaurants.Most Mexican places
are to be strictly avoided, as should any restaurants that specialize in
pastas, breads, pastries, cookies, cakes, desserts in general and other starch-laden
places.Even steak houses are not
as good, as most serve bread, potatoes, rice and more.

Even here, be
careful since one can fill up on the rice, for example, although rice is
probably the best grain food to eat if one does not want to gain weight.Also, watch the soda pop and even sweetened
teas and coffees.Try to eat
simply of vegetables, meat, a little potato or rice and not much else.Drink plain tea, plain coffee if you
must or diet soda, though this is horrible as well for other reasons than
weight gain.

3. More complex metabolic imbalances such as a low thyroid
gland activity, weak adrenal glands, weak kidneys, weak liver, and others.While some cases of weight gain are
fairly simple to correct, many are not.Let us discuss the more complex issues involved in weight gain and weight
loss.This is discussed in the
section below trauma.

4. The vicious cycle of so-called brain diabetes. Many people
have so-called brain diabetes.With this condition, the brain basically starves because the brain
cannot obtain adequate nutrition from glucose due to a type of diabetic
condition.One of the effects is a
strong craving for food.Usually,
the person eats carbohydrates, which is the wrong food.Cooked vegetables and MCT oil are among
the right food, but they do not realize this.The wrong food causes more weight gain, which worsens brain
diabetes, in a vicious cycle.More
on this topic is in the articles entitled MCT
And Coconut Oil For Brain Diseases and Dementias And
Nutritional Balancing on this website.

5. Other.At times, other factors may cause weight gain.These include some psychological or emotional imbalances,
and depression.These can usually
be handled with a complete nutritional balancing program.A very important reason for obesity is
a response to trauma, whether one knows about it consciously, or whether it is
unconscious.This important topic
is discussed below.

LOW WEIGHT

SKINNY ON A NUTRITIONAL BALANCING PROGRAM

Anyone who follows
a complete nutritional balancing program faithfully will become slender or
perhaps even skinny.Some object
to this and think it is a mark of disease or deficiency of some kind.

This is not
true!I believe bodies should be
quite slender, unless the body is very muscular.I do not agree with those who say one should be plump or
stocky to be healthy.

EXCESSIVE WEIGHT
LOSS

Now let us
address an opposite problem.Why
are some people very thin and cannot gain weight.This can apply to fast as well as slow oxidizers, so I will
combine the answers for both body types, though some differences occur.

Sympathetic
dominance.This means that a person overuses their
sympathetic nervous systems, also called the fight-or-flight nervous
system.This nervous system has a
variety of subtle effects that are associated with the lean or slender body
type.Sometimes these people
are referred to as ‘thyroid types’ and they tend to maintain a slender body,
although they may be quite ill with cancer, diabetes and other conditions.

Primary or
secondary hyperthyroidism
that occurs often in slow oxidizers that is due to a toxic thyroid and
pituitary condition.This can in
fact cause significant weight loss and is one reason for weight loss in a slow
oxidizer.

Copper, low zinc and anorexia.Some slow oxidizers are prone to
anorexia due to copper toxicity, which results in a thin and unhealthy body.

Impaired digestion due to toxic metals and infections.

Stress.Stress
depletes many minerals and impairs digestion a lot.Poor eating habits such as eating on the run or in one’s car
while driving is an example of how stress affects digestion and can impair it
severely.

Lifestyle.Just as one’s lifestyle can cause weight gain, it can also tend one
toward weight loss.Stress,
nervousness, irritability and other emotions often cause some people to stop
eating very much.

Also, running
around too much causes weight loss from lack of calories commensurate with
one’s activity level.Other
reasons are possible due to emotional influences as well.

Other.Toxic metals such as lead, cadmium,
arsenic and others can occasionally cause weight loss very severely.This is associated with cancer, for
example, and other chronic and degenerative conditions that cause weight loss.Appetite is impaired and other factors
such as atrophy of the intestinal lining causes weight loss and eventual death
unless the process is reversed quickly.

Adhesions.These can easily choke off the flow of nerve energy to the stomach by constricting
the vagus nerve.This can cause
reduced stomach capacity, lack of appetite, pain upon eating, gastritis and
other problems that may reduce the appetite or reduce the absorption of
nutrients from food.

Psychological reasons.Some people do not like fat on their body and will go to
great lengths to avoid it.The
extreme of this situation are the people with anorexia nervosa and bulimia, who
believe they are fat even though they may be quite thin.They have a perceptual delusion about
their body.

Some people may
want to “disappear”, and becoming very thin is one way to do it.

All
information in this article is for educational purposes only.It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.